GUEST COLUMN: Governor's plan must take root

11:09 AM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Written by

Cleo Owens

Like many Tennesseans, I was disappointed that Gov. Bill Haslam said he would not include Medicaid expansion in his budget for next year.

But I took heart in the fact that he left the door open - with his "Tennessee Plan" - to leverage the dollars authorized through the Affordable Care Act to provide insurance for thousands of hard-working Tennesseans. He says our state has a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to truly have health care reform."